David W. Shelton is a business owner, writer, activist, graphic artist and illustrator in and lives Clarksville, Tennessee along with his three dogs that completely dominate his home. His works have appeared in The Leaf-Chronicle, The Tennesseean, Advocate.com, and in various publications. He is also the author of The Rainbow Kingdom: Christianity and the Homosexual Reconciled. Unification: Rise of the Thunderblade is his first novel.